Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-13

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Boston gentleman aerees 70 rive Ra,es
College . t25 600 observatory and . fund ~
O,0OO. on the condition that the college
raise 500 00O
The Auburn shoe shipments this week
were 7, los cases. Moses Crafts'Shoe Cob
not shipped any shoes for the past two weeks.
having been shut down for stock-takins. .
portion of the time.
Tn Turner Center Creamery Association
has contracted With . wholesale and retail
dealer Al Bar Harbor for its summer product.
The Bar Harbor man has engaged all of The
july and August butter at q fixed price, and
the creamery will also put up and store mos,
OF Its June product for the same party Bar
haroor hotels get the Turner Center Cream
cry butter AT high figure. 1t is one of the
fanciest buffers in the world. II is said that
the cream has netted ten cents an inch during
April, or about 20 cents to the pound
The store of Isaac Osgood. in North Au-
burn, WAS broken into, TUESDAY, night
Oranges, crackers and = few cigars were
missing, Wednesday morning. The loss is
not large. The thief entered BY . side win
dow, breaking the glass.
Benjamin Bartlett, a fourteen year old boy.
Is reported to have mysteriously disappeared
been al work for Ira Monroe during the past
winter. Upon returning from church on
Sunday, Mr.. Monroe missed q silver-mounted
gun aud some other articles, and the Bart
lett boy has not been seen since. Mr. Mon
roe Is prosecuting vigorous search for the
lad, according to the Portland Press.
CUMBERLAND.
Wednesday noon Daniel HYDE met Timothy
Glennan, at Gorham's corner, near Portland.
and drew pistol, for some cause unknown
Hyde uttered an oath and attempted to fire
the pistol The cartridg. did not explode AMI
Hyde again cooked the pistol and then pulled
the trigger a second time. This time the
pistol was discharged but without effect
Gennan made of and Hyde made himself
scarce.
The steamer Oregan sailed from Portland
at noon, Tuesday. being the last English
steamer to leave here this season. She car
ried a very large cargo including a large
amount of grain and several hundred head of
csttle.-rhe Portland city government has
made an appropriation OF $500 for a Fourth
OF July celebration.
st. Alban Commandery of Portland, and
ladies, will go on their annual excursion to
Mount Kineo, Tuesday, June 10Th, returning
the following Friday. Chambers band will
accompany them.
A special town meeting will soon be called
at WestbrOok to consider q proposition from
the Portland Water Co.. to introduce a
thorough system OF water supply with hydrants
all over town.
| The Masonic Mutual Relief at Rockland,
has added 81 new names to 1t, list of mem
bershp since September. Five were added
at the monthly meeting Friday evening.
Since September, eight months, bat one
death has occurred.
Arrangements are being made for a fine
horse trot at Knox Driving Park. the 4th of
July. The grounds will be put in order, and
measures taken to ensure an exciting con-
test. Another trot will probably be given in
August.
Schooner James A. Beckwith of Westport,
N. S., arrived at Rockland Sunday with
$500 Holsters for Chase & Packard. They
were handsome fellows, of large size, and in
! fne condition.
The Rockland Board of Trade now has one
hundred members.-The Knox Lodge of l..
o. o. F. have secured q new hall on the cor
ner of Main and School streets.
McCallum Bros of Warren, have purchased
a new boiler for their steam launch, and will
| probably purchase a barge to be used in tex
ing eXcursionists down among the islands
Car loads of stock for the wooden mill and
| shoe shop are arriving every week and the
business prospect is good
/ j F Wiley of Hope, is the owner of a
curious freak of nature. 1t is a five-legged,
seven footed lamb. The extra leg is between
the animals forw ard legs, and the two extra
feet do service on one of the rear legs. 1t 10
alive and kicking.
OXFORD.
An anomalous room has been about the
premises of DR.. LamsoE of tryeburg this
spring which is entirely white, where ordiDa
rily robin is red. The bird has black
| head and strip of black down the top of
each wing. He is very pretty fellow, and
lately has been building his nest on a large
| elm in front of the doctors house. Speaking
of robins or their peculiarities, one was seen
year or two ago at North Conwsy-not a
| white one thOugh--who built her nest on a
beam under the depot. Before competition 1t
blew away twice, but nothing daunted, she
tried the same place again, this time. how
ever, taking piece of swine and winding it
around the nest and below the beam several
times securing all firmly and then raised her
Young.
PENoBscor
A syndicate headed 0v TWO gentlemen, one
belonging in ST. John and the other in Bos
| ton have chartered the steamer Mary Nor
gan to run on the Penobscot river and bay
betw cen Basgor and Rockland. This is an
iron steamer, will carry over 1900 passengers.
She was built for Cony Island business and is
very fast, being able to run sixteen miles an
hour easily. She is to make daily trips be-
tween Bangor and Rocklans, leaving here in
, the morning after the arrival of the trains
and touching at all the down river landings.
She will leave Rockland 10 the afternoon tor
Portland and go very fast both ways.
The Bangor Loan and Building Association
at it's meeting this week loaned 82600 at
twenty and twenty Ave cents premium. This
| is one of the most advantageous loans ever
made by the organization. 1t is now on a
| fine basis and there is no question but that it
will be able to pay six per cent dividends.